Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the students finally decided to speak out, it was university reform they wanted to discuss, but France sent its police, not its thinkers, to deal with them. The student catalogue of complaints is larger and more depressing than any list of grievances that U.S. students can compile. The Paris student seeking an advanced degree, such as the doctoral d'état (comparable to the American Ph.D.), faces six years of relentless scholastic competition as he fights his way, first to the diplome universitaire d'études littéraires (roughly equivalent to a B.A.), then through...
...depends on the severity of the child's original handicap and on subjective judgment of what constitutes marked improvement. Bettelheim estimates the adjustment rate at 40% in the exceptionally severe psychosis known as infantile autism, a disorder whose victims refuse to recognize, listen, or in most cases even speak to the world around them. He puts the rate at 80% for other patients. Some psychiatrists think Bettelheim's figures may be optimistic, but concede that his results are vastly better than those achieved in most mental institutions...
...withdraw into a living-death fantasy existence characterized by fear and stony silence-or, at best, by unintelligible animal noises. Unwilling to admit their own existence because they fear that the outside world will destroy them, many autistics refuse to use the pronoun "I" if and when they do speak...
...mild film of convention that won few admirers. Fahrenheit 451, starring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie, was his only true failure, an atypically emotionless sci-fi attempt to show the future as nightmare. The fact, of course, that it was done in English by a director who could not speak the language made the project disaster-prone from the beginning...
Final Spiral. In Lynd's quick march, the next main engagement that had to be fought by the American radical was to establish "a freedom to act as well as think and speak." History, he believes, provided the appropriate issue in abolitionism, which expanded the private privilege of conscience into the public privilege of civil disobedience. The radicals of 1776 stipulated that "only majorities could renew the social contract," explains Lynd. "Abolitionism was obliged to discard that restriction so as to justify individual disobedience to laws which sanctioned slavery...